Picture puzzle (Nov 25 blog entry)

[skullturfq]

Love your last film list. Nice work.

[Ken Jennings]

And the top one too?

[ErWenn]

First group: dunno which film's shown using third photo.

[Ken Jennings]

If you can recognize the star, you can find it using IMDb. It's a great movie, though not available on US DVD right now (I think).

[ErWenn]

Marlon Brando?

Photo's fairly little sizing causes doubts.

[Ken Jennings]

That's limey actor James Mason, doing slain-Irish-rebel drama.

[skullturfq]

I do not know every motion picture Jennings displayed yesterpost.

[Bill]

Bold photo work shows how to follow cool host to know honor.

Oops, wrong post...

[skullturfq]

That's limey actor James Mason, doing slain-Irish-rebel drama.

That Brit also made some film that fits your last list, slot four.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041327/

[Ken Jennings]

Ah, very nice. The only alternative I could come up with was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

[bwouns]

I wonder, would Big Top Pee-Wee count for the fourth slot in the first list?

[skullturfq]

A friend of mine once pointed out that if you completely ignore numerals (which I admit is inelegant), then 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould qualifies for the "next" list.

There's a related list for which the film I Am Sam qualifies.

[bwouns]

A friend of mine once pointed out that if you completely ignore numerals (which I admit is inelegant), then 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould qualifies for the "next" list.

Rather than ignoring the numerals, I would just rephrase: XXXII Short Films About Glenn Gould

[Ken Jennings]

That's nothing: my upcoming directorial debut will be titled Joyce Carol Oates Meets Sarah Heath Palin. It's a knock-down drag-out battle over third-wave feminism like the screen's never seen before!!!

[Bill]

That's nothing: my upcoming directorial debut will be titled Joyce Carol Oates Meets Sarah Heath Palin. It's a knock-down drag-out battle over third-wave feminism like the screen's never seen before!!!

That reminds me of Helena Bonham Carter Versus Ronald Wilson Reagan, the tragically misguided film about the 1980 election.

[skullturfq]

Or my upcoming mockumentary about the writing of children's literature, called Observe Frances Hodgson Burnett Compose Stories.

[PhygLeGuy]

Seen upon boob tube, IMDb says:

America Salutes Richard Rodgers
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

[skullturfq]

Seen upon boob tube, IMDb says:

America Salutes Richard Rodgers
Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

PhygLeGuy eyeballed appealing aesthetic curiosity! Utilizing automated searching?

[Ken Jennings]

Has any one tac kle...um, I mean, has anyone tackled the problem of the missing movie title of five three-letter words? IMDb lists a British TV series called "The Man Who Was Two," but that's all I can find.

[PhygLeGuy]

PhygLeGuy eyeballed appealing aesthetic curiosity! Utilizing automated searching?

Taught during recent Mensan soiree

Has any one tac kle...um, I mean, has anyone tackled the problem of the missing movie title of five three-letter words? IMDb lists a British TV series called "The Man Who Was Two," but that's all I can find.

Si si, mon ami. Look down below where titles appear:

Bip Bop Bip Bop Bap (2006)
A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957) -- (I went past five this time. Drat!)
Old Man and the Kid (1982)
One Man and His Dog (2004)
Two Men and the Law (1912)

[Ken Jennings]

Bip Bop Bip Bop Bap (2006)
A Man and His Dog Out for Air (1957) -- (I went past five this time. Drat!)
Old Man and the Kid (1982)
One Man and His Dog (2004)
Two Men and the Law (1912)

Wow, I'm impressed. So how'd you find them?

Just for completism's sake, the pictured movies are:
Red
Top Hat
Odd Man Out
The Big Red One
The Old Man and the Sea

and

Juno
Cast Away
Eyes Wide Shut
From Dusk Till Dawn
All's Well that Ends Well

[bradluen]

Somewhat related: one of eight stanzas from the eighth poem of The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces by Raphael Rubenstein, whose name you might recognise if you read Art in America, as blogged here (with one apparent error corrected and one not):

Eardrums register brimming airwaves carrying assorted auditory messages,
miswired receiver confuses adjacent stations: highland Scottish bagpipes
encroach Jamaican melodica virtuoso, Hendrixy feedback explodes delicate
madrigal, Liberace disrupts Tristano, yodeling mountain peasants bulldoze
Idomeneo. Antennas remotely transmit baffling episodes: Mulligan embraces
Gesualdo, bleating electric bassoons practice Ultravox classics, Veracruz
mariachi ensemble enlivens famously pathetic Nocturne, Bayreuth audience
whistles Zeppelin melodies, Morrissey conducts flawless Sibelius symphony.

The first poem is

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